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I personally find this saying extremely overrated and damaging in many cases. Especially considering the pacifying effect it can have on attempting to undo cert
by hackingthenews 4y ago
I personally find this saying extremely overrated and damaging in many cases. Especially considering the pacifying effect it can have on attempting to undo certain injustices.
Best use of it is in your personal life with family, friends, retail worker in your local grocery shop etc.
- sva_ 4y agoNever attribute to stupidity, that which can be adequately explained by economic incentives (I don't think it applies here though)
- hackingthenews 4y agoYes, thank you, I was in fact primarily (but not exclusively) thinking of economic incentives! I will use your phrasing from now on.
- a1369209993 4y ago> retail worker in your local grocery shop Actually, that frequently is malice, but it's malice on the part of the grocery shop, not the individual worker. Proposed addendum: never attribute to personal malice what can be adequately explained by institutional malice.
- hackingthenews 4y agoI agree. My guess is that institutional malice is fully explained by economic incentives 99% of the time. Which the version from the other comment cover: "Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be adequately explained by economic incentives"